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Interesting point with adjectives vs nouns.

‘a Frenchman’ would be more correct than ‘a French’. Because French is only an adjective, while American and German are both nouns and adjectives. But Frenchman is not gender neutral like German or American.

Could go with Francophone, but that’s any french speaking person so that includes canadians, africans, etc.

And, it would seem to make sense to go with Frank, but the Franks were originally germans, then expanded their territory to include France, and the name stuck there but not in their original territory, so is it really correct to refer to the French as Franks? Since no one does it, I would guess not.

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The thinkpad-x13s-snapdragon is fanless and uses a qualcomm snapdragon processor, so an ARM like the macs use but lower performance. Batttery life is reputedly in the 20+ hour range.

Caveats:

  • kinda pricey, 1K
  • this arm chip is slow compared to macs.
  • out of the mainstream so better do your homework on whether linux is well supported.

Laptops based on the snapdragon elite processors will come out this year, and performance should be comparable to the Mx macs. So maybe better to wait. Although, those may be considerably more expensive, and who knows what linux support will be like, especially at first.

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Is 2002 recent? Still loving my vintage wrx.

When the wheels fall off I’d like to go with something electric, but those tend to be phones with wheels. Maybe a used volt?

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FYI: bond girl Caroline Cossey

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If you require developers to update apps that still work just to keep them on the store, you’re going to lose apps for no reason. Not every app needs updates to keep working.

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another key I can map to something useful in linux!

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Yay, and documenting flakes. I was afraid they weren’t going to.

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Ok, I’ll go:

The Will Smith I, Robot movie took its title from the classic Issac Asimov imagining of a future of robots that coexist productively with humans due to his Three Laws of Robotics. Asimov’s work is an optimistic statement on the power of science and reasoning to construct a utopian world. The Will Smith movie instead delivers a message of “Robots R Bad And Will Kill U All”, completely disregarding the whole point of the source material. They could have named it something else since it had almost nothing in common with the actual book, but instead they chose to take a giant dump on Asimov’s legacy.

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maybe its our instance but calendar sync is horribly broken for us. I use thunderbird on pc and fossify calendar on mobile, and events tend to make it to nextcloud but not to the other devices pretty frequently.

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